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1 February, 2015. 13:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact QUEENSLAND is the nation's self-proclaimed "smart state" - yet over 90% of Australia's "sun-kissed minority" cannot pronounce the name of their likely new premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk. While the more cultured and progressive states have been battling with Polish names for decades, this is the first example of Queenslanders having to learn a...

23 January, 2015. 19:48 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Country music lovers from all across the world have converged in Tamworth this Australia Day Weekend, with many arriving late Wednesday night to begin preparations for campsites and event schedules. The Tamworth Country Music Festival boasts themselves as host to "Every Country Music Fan In Australia" over the annual festival weekend - However,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In what can only be a true sign of reconciliation, in 2013 Betoota voted in the first Lord Mayor of Catholic heritage. It was only recently that Councillor Keith only clarified his families ‘question marks' when he was caught out ordering the fish special at the Betoota Hotel. However, the former roo-shooter has revealed that he has...

  CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The greater Queensland Channel Country has come together today in support and praise of a local identity who despite old age, continues to service his community. At 71, Mr Jack Pearson, a fourth-generation cattle grazier and founder of E.H. Pearson Pastoral Company, currently sits at number 45 899 on the BRW Rich List, with an estimated worth of...

8 January, 2015. 08:59 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] 34-year old Betoota North mother of three, Alycia Curtin says that while her shameful "third-of-a-pack-a-day" smoking habit is not something she is proud of... it's not that bad - considering she has close friends who still go to nightclubs. "Look, I am a mother of three healthy children -  Which means I have...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT "Yeah, I'll be out in a second... just have a seat" It's the painful words that no one wants to hear. Particularly a 42 year-old accountant who is beginning to feel ashamed by his habitual marijuana use. Local father of three, Matthew Geyer, says as a 42-year middle aged father of three - he has a hard enough...

31 December, 2016. 15:03 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IT'S been a big year for us at The Betoota Advocate, from our various appearances on the ABC' to our partnership with HarperCollins to publish our first of many almanacks. We thank you for helping us grow from a modest country rag to a national news source - covering the biggest stories...

21 December, 2014. 14:03 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDER and Betoota local, Alex Whippett, has appeared on the global internet sensation Humans of New York - only a day after running in to Hamish Blake. Whippett was in town for the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Monster Energy Buck off at Madison Square Garden this week, where he placed...

25 June, 2014. 12:14 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The man was drinking at the Betoota Hotel Said to have consumed over sixteen standard drinks In the moments after buying the pheromone wipe, he instantly became "fuckable" says woman. A VISIBLY INTOXICATED local man says he had intercourse with a transient woman after purchasing a pheromone wipe from a hotel restroom. Witnesses say...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PERTH MAN Kevin Tilley has achieved what many leading experts consider to be the impossible. After seven tentative years of friendship - he finally made his best friend, Kaycee Lane, his girlfriend. "It didn't happen overnight," says Mr Tilley. "In the books I read, it said relationships take time to mature and grow," "I spent seven years in...